Fisher-Price Dance Baby Dance! Buildin' Band

by Fisher-Price

Product Features

• Six instruments to be played alone or together
• Five jazzy songs and 2 play modes
• Ages 6 mos. and up

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 11.1 x 13.1 inches ; 0.3 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B00022F0W4
• Item model number: C5521-0
• Our recommended age: 6 months and up
• Manufacturer recommended age: 6 months and up
• Batteries: 3 AAA batteries required.
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #77,520 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)

Product Description

The Boppin' Beats Build-a-Band is a musical stacking toy that provides your baby with a lively and musically creative experience. It features four components: a keyboard with electronic percussion pads, a tambourine, a drum with rattle beads, and a friendly dancing monkey that plays the horn. Baby can play with each piece as a take-along musical instrument, or stack them together on the lighted base to build a musical band that plays 5 songs. In the Songs Mode, each instrument action plays a musical riff, followed by a song. The keyboard also plays a complete song. In the Instruments Mode, each keyboard stroke builds the piano part of the songs, while each other activity plays that instrument's musical riff. Requires 3 "AA" alkaline batteries, included.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Baby loves this toy!, October 2, 2004

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GVes "GV" (Kentucky) - See all my reviews

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Fisher-Price Dance Baby Dance! Buildin' Band (Baby Product)

I bought this when my daughter was 7 months old, and she was immediately fascinated. At 9 1/2 months, she still loves it! My only concern is that it is a fairly heavy toy overall and the tambourine is quite heavy and hard. She has never hit herself or anyone else with the toy or its detachable instruments, but I do watch her closely because of this concern. Overall, I think this is a great toy; fun and musical but not too loud or annoying.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not so easy for young children, and not the best out there, February 7, 2007

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Manxman (East Coast) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fisher-Price Dance Baby Dance! Buildin' Band (Baby Product)

Disappointed with this one. It's a hybrid of sorts: it tries to be a song maker, a piano, and a stacker all in one. Unfortunately for small children, it's too bulky to really stack, and the drum and tambourine are too difficult to remove. The piano plays pre-set songs, or tracks of songs, rather than notes, so children have to listen thru before they engage again. Would have preferred individual sounds as (at least) an option. Because of the way the sound settings work, and the ease in which the cymbal can activate, ours essentially plays one song over and over again. We were definitely hoping for more, although it's not without its charms at times.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars After 7 months, baby girl still loves it!, October 24, 2005

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MB (Atlanta, Georgia) - See all my reviews

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Fisher-Price Dance Baby Dance! Buildin' Band (Baby Product)

My daughter got this for her 1st birthday, and now seven months later, it's still one of her favorite toys! She loves all the action, the play cymbal, the little drum pad, the tambourine...my only negative comments is that it's a little bulky for storage, takes up lots of room in the toy box. I have to say I like the nice mix of music, slightly different from the usually childrens toy music, not nearly as annoying!